Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Gullibility creates trust in things that are not worthy of trust.

I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.